Desert 1

1. Where in the world is the biome located (try and find an image that you can can copy and paste into your page)?

2. What is the climate like (what is the temperature and the weather)?

3. What different types of plants exist in this biome?

4. What different types of animals exist in this biome?

5. How is this biome threatened by humans?

6. Give an example of a specific ecosystem that would be classified as this biome (i.e. Lake Ontario is specific ecosystem that is an example of a freshwater biome)

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1. The Desert biome is Located in Southern Asian ,South and Central America Ethiopia and Australia.

2. The climate in a Desert is very hot and dry but cold nights.Some years are even rainless. The soil is rocky or gravely in some areas.


3. These are plants that live in the desert

• Barrel Cactus This plant looks like a barrel cactus.
• Brittle Bush This plant is a like a shrub that can grow 2 to 5 feet.
• Chainfruit Cholla This plant is a shrubby cactus.
  Creosote Bush This is a bush that smells like a creosote tar and its leaves were used for antiseptics.
• Crimson Hedgehog Cactus This is a small barrel shaped cactus that grows in clumps of a few to a hundred stems.
• Desert Ironwood This is a plant that looks like 10 cacti put together.

4. These are some animals that live in the desert

Birds Roadrunner, Ostrich,

Mammals meerkat, Caracal,

Reptiles Texas Horned Lizard,

Arthropods Black Widow, bark scorpion,

Amphibians Sonoran Desert Toad...

5. The Desert biome is endagered because humans are polluting the planet so global warming is happening so the desert is getting dryer and dryer.


6. The Sahara Desert is specific ecosystem that is an example of a desert biome.